Letter from Lincoln
To coin a phrase – the economy, stupid – is what matters to most people. So I’m starting a new monthly series that will concentrate mainly on geo-economics to complement the Return to Sender series, which focuses on geo-politics.
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Letter from Lincoln…August 2026
The dominant theme of the summer is continuing into August – runaway wars and out of control wildfires – but attention is now starting to turn to the cost of all this.
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Letter from Lincoln…July 2026
Entirely predictably – and not just by me in my last column – the ceasefire between the US and Iran has broken down, with both sides initiating strikes in the Middle East. This has left more ships stranded on the wrong side of the Strait of Hormuz while the oil prices head north again.
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Letter from Lincoln…June 2026
Yay, at last the US and Iran have signed a memorandum of understanding and the ships that were stranded in the Gulf have started to make their way out, past the Strait of Hormuz including those Iranian ships that were caught in the US blockade.
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Letter from Lincoln…May 2026
The American President Donald Trump has continued to hold the world hostage to his own ego as he seeks a face saving way out of his monumental mistake in attacking Iran. He continues to insist it’s the only way to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons though the imperfect Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that Obama…
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Letter from Lincoln…April 2026
This week’s annual spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington DC, USA, has set the tone for the geo-economic news, with the meeting itself overshadowed by the ill-advised American-led war in the Middle East.
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Letter from Lincoln…March 2026
No surprises to find that this month’s Letter from Lincoln is all about the economics of war, spreading out like an oil slick to pollute every other corner of the globe.
Nessan Cleary 